Short Hemingway Poems

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Hemingway

Hemingway is nice big writer won Nobel Prize in Literature

I really love to read Hemingway do you love to read him too?
Form: Monoku


Premium Member No Mistaken Identity

Some say I look like Hemingway Some say he looks like me. But six-toed cats cannot be fooled That’s why, from me, they flee. Written by John Posey 03-16-13
© John Posey  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member What Hemingway Saw and Felt That Summer

What Hemingway Saw And Felt That Summer

floor, rat eaten shoe
fisherman and lake in tune
dawn, eggs and bacon

Robert J. Lindley, 4-04-2018
Haiku, ( Life, Living and Time)
Form: Haiku

Like Hemingway

I passed through Ketchum
Losing my mind 
Surrounded by talking walls
One drink turns to a bottle
I try to write 
Poetry is poetry 
At the moment I drink surrounded by walls and I write" I was here then I was gone"

Lying to ourselves

I think i'm Bukowski

because i drank three beers

He thinks he's Hemingway

because he fought a poodle

She thinks she's Nina Simone

after her third piano lesson

We all kinda suck, but that's alright, i hope


Premium Member August 26

a wedding
      anniversary
of decades
         departed

days of yore
        that are no more
& yet
      as precious
                   still
as dust
    upon
        a butterfly's wings*



*a Hemingway phrase
Form: Bio

Forever On Hold

A literary sociopath…
  Hemingway wrote

Both gifted and tortured,
  his words they provoke

A verbal combatant,
  new victories untold

His last proving fatal
  —all memory on hold

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
Form: Rhyme

Forever On Hold

A literary sociopath…
  Hemingway wrote

Both gifted and tortured,
  his words they provoke

A verbal combatant
  with battles foretold

His last the most fatal
  —all memory on hold

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Old Man and The Sea

Faulkner's letter to Hemingway discovered God in time ~ ere souls wrote formed their clays ~ victories and defeats ~ fought they their reproof now loves and pities proud catch lost at sea old man lands the best that seldom's me
Form: Sedoka

The First Cut

Avoid needless
complexity
Say it
straight out

Frost and
then Hemingway
Set the rules
down

Between meaning
and verbiage
The idea
is king

Sharpen 
the point
The message
— the thing

(Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: January, 2024)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Hemingway and Wilde

Once for whom the bell tolls did exist
the playwright and the war journalist.
  Wilde had an ego that’s true
  but Hemingway always knew
the importance of being Ernest!


           Written: May 2015
Form: Limerick

Fishery

Fishery 


He is a fisherman from Guiana
doesn´t do Tonga, but the sea is blue.
His face is a map of America.
He fishes sharks (not Hemingway)
one of them took his arm.
Vengeance is mine, said the lord.
Crap !!! He says
and set red sail for China.

Tanka Style

Good Old Earnest. 

Thanks to internet 
Novels are getting longer 
But not better 
A jungle of unnecessary word
A machete comes in handy 

Earnest Hemingway 
Used typewriter and slowly  
Paused for a little drink 
Being economical with words 
So he could go out fishing
Form: Tanka

Pearls

I don't need to be Hemingway...
Or anyone else....
I am comfortable being me
In lust with you....

My poem of a man....
A warrior...
Speaks all I can say
to you....

Golden curls and red lips
So excite me....
In my dreams 
Pearls are my gift to you
As I sleep....So loving.

Books

Orwell, Hemingway, King
Reading is my favorite thing 
Without books I would be a bird with one wing

Poe, Twain, Joyce
What I do with my free time is read 
That is my choice
I plan on writing my own book soon because my pen is my voice

Shelley, Lovecraft, Tzu
Books make me me 
What makes you you ?
© James Knox  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member In the Pocket

In the Pocket


For years Nana begged for a holiday 
But pop's only passion was Faraday
He failed to do the math
Created a psychopath
She smirked, "Give my regards to Hemingway."





(Pocket: Some surfers call this the energy zone and it can be identified as the steepest point in the wave.)
© FJ Thomas  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member A Farewell To Arms

Is  
             When a tiny tot teeters on the brink of toddlerhood
             When your first love finds another
             When a reader discovers Hemingway
             When demob happy you exit the services
             When a treacherous IED is tripped
             When Death your soulmate snatches away.

My Pen To Flow

I’ve forever written 
  as myself

Few influences will 
  show

Neither Hemingway nor 
  Faulkner

 Not Melville or 
  Thoreau

But as one who saw through 
  all of that

With so much more
  to know

 I search the land
   and stars above

For ink
  —my pen to flow

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member "tribute To Himingway"

Ernest Hemingway;
Him had his way,
Earnest Hemingway.
Not much a poet I would say,
I like him anyway...
Had so many things to say.
Though married many wives,
Couldn’t keep em,
For with other women he was sleeping!
I know for in his Bio… 
I’ve been peeping,
And into his writing style…
              I’m slowly creeping!
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Drink of the Flowing Pens

I feel the undercurrent, of the ever-flowing rivers

That feed the wells, and springs of pens

The depth of words, flowing again

Hemingway became a lake

Emily a brook

Pouring out for our partake

Drink deeply now from cups poured then

Springs flowing out across time's glens

Rhyme and prose in Poets rose, in out-flowing of these givers
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Where Have All the Classics Gone

We all once read the same great books in school
Shakespeare, Dickens, Samuel Clemens, Hemingway
Each one a classic, thought to be a jewel --
With plots and themes still relevant today
A widespread range of characters portrayed -- 

But now these treasures, written by white men
Are labelled racist and misogynist... Amen.



         ~ Iambic Pentameter

Hemingway

"your pretty thought does not describe hard life.
It tells your wish.  You have to save yourself!
Redemption is the honesty of courage--
The guts to bet yourself against all odds."

The old man grieved because his net of words
Fell on the page, no longer catching him;
And, knowing only what a man should do
With wounded beasts, he kissed the   phallic gun.
sad

The Winds Of Today

For Papa

That monster inside us
devouring the past
Our memories hunted
most recent to last

No mercy is shown us
as darkness creeps in
Today and tomorrow
—lost into the wind

(Tribute To Hemingway: January, 2024)


Lakota Buffalo Prayer

Shooting 
today
Killing 
tomorrow

Targeted
fortune
Lost
—to the wind

(The New Room: January, 2024)
Form: Rhyme

The Mist

The Mist
Cascais was enveloped in a silky, grey fog last night
that reminded me of Marilyn Dietrich silk- stockings
she wore in an ad many years ago.
Ernest Hemingway and her were a great love story
not consumed.
Above the stockings, a nearly full moon shone, it 
gave hope for the future, the lockdown will soon end
it will be ok, but not as before taking life for granted.

Changing

For we have thought the longer thoughts
And trod the road to stray.
And we have sung the songs of hill,
Then uttered words of fray;
But to Him we owe these lives we owed 
Now it's time to lay
A glowing candle in shadowed path
And humbled our knees to pray.





"For we have thought the longer thoughts "
the first line of the poem "Chapter Heading"
by Ernest Hemingway

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